Donate food
+ household necessities
e really appreciate your help.
Non-perishable items—rice, flour, long-life UHT milk, tinned tomatoes and legumes—are welcome. Long-lasting fruit and vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, onions, apples and citrus are also appreciated.
We can only accept donations from the general public which are unopened and are in line with current health regulations.
Drop off times
Monday to Thursday, 7am – 2pm
Location
Addi Road Food Pantry, Hut 1 (southern side of the carpark)
142 Addison Road, Marrickville
What to donate
Individuals or community groups e.g. schools
Food
- Fresh vegetables (long lasting e.g. potatoes, onions, carrots)
- Fresh fruit (long lasting e.g. apples, citrus)
- Rice
- Flour
- Pasta sauce
- Cooking oil
- Sugar
- Salt
- UHT milk
- Tinned tomatoes
- Chickpeas
- Lentils
- Dried pulses
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned fish
- Instant noodles
- Spices
- Tea
- Coffee
- Jam
- Honey
- Breakfast cereal
- Biscuits
Household goods
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo/conditioner
- Deodorant
- Razors/shaving foam
- Sanitary products
- Toothbrushes/toothpaste
- Laundry detergent
- Dishwashing liquid
- Tissues
- Nappies (larger sizes)
- Baby wipes
- Household cleaning items – tea towels, dishcloths, sponges etc.,
Business donations
Food businesses, retail outlets, stores and supermarkets can contact our Food Pantry Manager, Damien Moore.
We have a driver and a refrigerated vehicle available on weekdays to do pick ups across the Inner West.
Food relief
Latest News
23 November 2021 / Featured, Food Rescue
Making The Fijian Connection
Keresi 'Grace' Rabuatoka is the force behind The Fijian Community in Sydney. She has just organised – independently – to send a shipment of Addi Road hampers back to very hungry people in Fiji. A true community powerhouse.
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23 November 2021 / Featured, Food Rescue
Jack and the Reindeer: A Xmas Story
At first it is hard to figure out what the heck is going on. A gentleman by the name of Jack appears to be presenting Annerie with some type of psychedelic bouquet, a treasure-and-trash flower that is bursting out every-which-way.
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Radio Knight
Dominic Knight is here recording a documentary for his Sunday morning program on ABC Sydney 702. The ex-Chaser man has asked Addi Road CEO Rosanna Barbero for “a royal tour”.
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The Story Teller
Addi Road inspired Mike Williams to create a half-hour documentary, ‘The Dignity Business’, for Radio National’s Earshot program.
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18 October 2021 / Featured, Food Rescue
Food of Love
Things have changed for Ethan and Brad-Lee. Earlier this year Brad-Lee had a brain haemorrhage. But it was not the sad story it could have been.
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The Keeper
“I have loved it here,” say Clint Bolton, the former football goalkeeping star. “You get to a point in your life where you realise the most important thing is the relationships that you have with with people. Coming here, I’ve been inspired."
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30 September 2021 / Featured, Food Rescue
The Giving Days
Kim and Hannah are here from Junction Neighbourhood Centre (JNC) filling up a van load of hampers at the Addi Road Food Relief Hub. Both of them have seen a lot with COVID-19 and its impact in the community.
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29 September 2021 / Featured, Food Rescue
Politics and Poverty
“I think the real question you have to ask is, why is it that all this volunteer labour is providing this level of essential service and care?” Leong says, gesturing around the Addi Road Food Relief Hub.
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28 September 2021 / Featured, Food Rescue
Power to the People
A coalition of community organisations dedicated to the notion of a basic living wage is being discussed. With a focus on weaving an alliance over the issue with community organisations in swinging seats at the next election.
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22 September 2021 / Featured, Food Rescue
It’s a Long Way to the Top
AC/DC’s ‘It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna to Rock n Roll)’ is pumping through the hall that Addi Road have converted into our Food Relief Hub. Chris Minns, State Labor Leader of the Opposition and the Member for Kogarah, is our guest hamper packer today.
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Donations Act.
The Civil Liability Amendment (Food Donations) Act 2005, known as the Good Samaritan Act, protects food donors by limiting the liability of individuals and businesses that donate food, providing they meet certain food safety conditions: The food is donated in good faith for a charitable or benevolent purpose; the food is safe to eat when it leaves the possession or control of the donor; the donor gives the charity any information it needs to ensure the ongoing safety of the food.